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Versus Doing A Good Job
by Paul on 04/29/07 at 11:53 AM ET
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from Terry Frei of the Denver Post,
Versus, in its second season as the often-derided U.S. national cable outlet for the NHL, is doing a good job.
If you find it and turn it on at the beginning of an evening and leave it on, you’re delivered a solid package, including supplemental coverage from Canadian television and terrific work in the studio from analysts Brian Engblom, a former NHL defenseman who lives in Denver, and one-time Avalanche winger Keith Jones.
They strike the balance between information and entertainment, and they don’t shy away from saying what they think and criticizing. Yet you’re never left feeling - as you do sometimes with NBA coverage, for example - that they’re compromising their credibility for the sake of being “controversial” and perhaps getting their names in a USA Today television column.
more NHL bits from Terry…
SteveNJ, a KK member who kept us updated during the year on the NBC broadcasts, emailed me today to let me know the Versus schedule now indicates what channel the HD game can be viewed. It designates an “M” for games on Mojo via INHD.
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The key phrase is “If you find it”. I saw the VS web page Sunday that lists either “VS HD” or “HD via MOJO”. The VS HD games MAY show up on the new Versus/Golf Channel HD, although no Comcast customer service rep knows at this time if there will be a hockey game or old Golf tournament on that channel. Last Thursday’s Red Wings Game 1 was one of the “HD via MOJO” games that Comcast was supposed to put on “iNHD”, but in fact iNHD carried an NBA playoff game and the NHL game was not on HD anywhere. Comcast is actually clueless about the whole thing.
Posted by RWBill on 04/30/07 at 09:06 AM ET